Fully fund UMC, contract with a responsible operator and ensure a full slate of health services at the new hospital in Ward 8.
Those were the demands of the DC Health Justice Coalition at a DC City Council hearing last Friday. The Coalition, made up of unions and community organizations, gathered at the Council to demand full-service, high-quality healthcare for residents of Wards 7 and 8. Before the Committee on Health heard more than four hours of testimony, coalition leaders rallied on the Wilson Building steps to draw attention to the healthcare crisis facing DC. Find out more at dchealthjustice.com. On today’s labor calendar, Transdev bus drivers continue their strike today; picketing all day in Lorton, VA; for details and the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1986, Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urged employers to begin spying on workers to try to catch them using drugs, quote, "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns," unquote. Today’s labor quote is by writer Sebastian Junger, who wrote the book, “The Perfect Storm,” about the fishing boat Andrea Gail, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, which on this date in 1991 was caught in ferocious storm and lost at sea with her crew of six. The city of Gloucester has lost more than 10,000 whalers and fishermen to the sea over its 350-year history. Sebastian Junger, who said: “Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.” You can support Union City Radio – and all the great programming here at WPFW – by making a generous contribution today; call 202-588-9739 or go to wpfwfm.org and Thank You! Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’ve ever thought you could use some legal advice, think about enrolling in the Union Plus Legal Program for access to a nationwide network of attorneys at a low price. Take advantage of even lower pricing during open enrollment now until November 30. Visit unionplus.org/legal.
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